Liverpool 1920, and on a stormy September night two women from very different backgrounds give birth to daughters in the same house. Enemies at first, they become friends, united by their lives upside down. But friendship between their daughters is another matter...

Nineteen years later, at the start of Second World War, Cara and Sybil find themselves thrown together when they both enlist and are stationed in Malta. It is a time that has life-changing repercussions for them both while, back home in Liverpool, the bombs rain down on a defiant city.

The September Girls is an engrossing story of two families, their loves, secrets and betrayals, and a powerful evocation of war-time in Liverpool.